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The simplest of signs : Victor Hugo and the language of images in France, 1850-1950

"Victor Hugo's writings and the plastic arts have often been discussed, but rarely has their relation been specified. In The Simplest of Signs, Raser uses semiotic analysis to isolate features of Hugo's discourse (his use of dates, facts, performatives, etc.) to show, on the one hand, how Hugo used these to participate in the greater Romantic project of creating effects of immediacy and presence, and, on the other, how he presupposed a concept of the plastic image take likens it more to perception than to reading."
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Delaware Press, Newark, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
217 pages ; 24 cm
9780874138672, 0874138671
53900596
Includes essays previously published in variuous publications between 1992 and 1998